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Jan 29, 2018With Rifles & Rosary Beads, she’s created her most impressive and affecting work yet.
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Jan 29, 2018Rifles and Rosary Beads is unlike any other record. It edifies and empathizes with the experiences of its participants in delivering brutal yet tender truths; it confronts listeners to embrace without judgment the struggle of war survivors, while experientially relating the extended fact that over 7,400 veterans commit suicide each year. Gauthier and her collaborators look into the gaping maw of war, its trauma, isolation, rage, and loneliness, to reveal the human faces and hearts of its witnesses. Popular music can do no more than this.
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Jan 29, 2018Exquisite. ... Rifles & Rosary Beads offers not only a document of atrocity and neglect, but a chance for redemption and healing.
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Jan 29, 2018Shut off the social media for an hour, and pay attention to these stories. The co-writers of these poignant and powerful songs have fought in defense of our collective freedom of speech. We should honor them by listening to their stories.
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MagnetApr 17, 201811 somber-yet-empathetic songs on Rifles & Rosary Beads. [No. 150, p.56]
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MojoFeb 27, 2018it's uncompromising stuff, but these unsung horrors are unsung no more. [Apr 2018, p.92]
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Positive: 20 out of 24
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Mixed: 2 out of 24
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Negative: 2 out of 24
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Feb 2, 2018
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Apr 13, 2018Delicate, powerful and moving lyrics combined with correspondingly beautiful music.
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Feb 3, 2018Masterful storytelling that will leave you emotionally involved in each song.